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Joined August 2017
Check out "Watts in A Home - Electric Dreams at The National Museum of Computing" @eventbritehelp.
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Lin Lanying Chinese electrical engineer materials scientist. 8 yrs in US 1957 returned home, manufactured China's 1st monocrystalline silicon & mono-crystal furnace to extract silicon. Laid foundations 4 microelectronics & optoelectronics b #OTD Feb 7 1918
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Mary Engle Pennington US bacteriological chemist & refrigeration engineer. 1907 chief of Food Research Laboratory, estab to enforce 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act. Devt standards for processing chickens, then moved in2 household refrigeration b #OTD 27 Dec 1952
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Winifred Brown, aviation pioneer author & adventurer. 1st (& for 50 years) only woman to win King’s Cup Air Race, entering against support of her club. Then explored Amazon by ship & canoe, followed by exploring Norwegian coast by boat. b. #OTD 26 Nov 1899
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Hilda Hudson mathematician graduated @Newnham_College 1903 ad eundem degrees @tcddublin 1906 & 13. 1917 joined Air Ministry for aeronautical engineering research, applying mathematical modelling to aircraft design Cremona transformation d. #OTD 26 Nov 1965
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Gertrude de Ferranti campaigned for affordable & accessible electricity in home, through Electrical Association for Women & work with husband Sebastian de Ferranti. 1936 1 of 2 women to attend World Power Conference as UK representatives d #OTD 16 Nov 1959
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RT @StradlingColl: Missed our Wednesday opening? We're next open TOMORROW Friday 25 Oct. Fancy owning your own All-Electric House? Wonderf….
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1934 Jeanie Dicks undertook 1st permanent electrification of #WinchesterCathedral Electrifying nave meant removing/reburying coffins except for #JaneAusten’s which was moved gently to side @WES1919 member b #OTD 25 Sep 1893 @WinchesterHods @WinCathedral
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Martha Schneider-Bürger 1st #German female civil engineer, graduating from @TU_Muenchen in 1927. Played significant role in standardisation of steel construction issues & her tables of steel sections ran to 23 editions d #OTD 25 Sep 2001
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Dorothy Martin Simon, US physical chemist in aerospace combustion & development of polymers. Worked on heat shield construction& improvement of rocket engine designs @ NACA. Work @DuPont_News led to invention of polymers Dacron & Orlon. d #OTD 18 Sep 1919
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Join @WES1919 today at 12.30, for our last ONLINE @heritageopenday Electric Dreams 2024 - Celebrating The Electrical Association For Women - Margaret Partridge - a talk by Anne Locker (.
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RT @SwindonLocal: The Women’s Engineering Society & the Electrical Association for Women placed women’s needs, especially in the home, at t….
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Join @WES1919 for the last online @heritageopenday Electric Dreams 2024 talks. Celebrating 💯 of the EAW. With the @IETLibArch .
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